Remmick-Hubert.HomeSite: Edwin Remmick's Life Story. Page 2

Edward Remick On Tractor In WPA [Veterans Civilian Corp]

Mother worked at the Mandan Creamery when there was work. Sometimes I went to help her so she could earn more money when doing piece work.

Sometimes, I'd visit my father at camp and eat with him, and, there is where I'd get my hair cut and a very nice barber taught me how to wear my hair in a better style.

In Mandan, we at first lived in an area called "Syndicate" and later we moved to a better house up on the hill.

When summer arrived we boys would skinny dip in the Heart River morning and night. Fish when we had time and in winter skated on that same river.

One Halloween night we went out to tip over the usual out-houses (which were still very much in existence then) only to find some bigger kids had moved it just beyond it's usual resting place. Needless to say I and my buddies took a hard run to gain power for the "BIG PUSH" only to find ourselves [falling] in the hole amid it's human manure...Boy, was I mad. I mean mad. We never did catch up with those kids, beside, they were too large for us to beat up, anyway.

Mandan was the base for the famous Mandan Indians.

Mandan Indians Danced For Passenger Train At The Train Station

They dressed daily in tribunal finery and did their ancestral dances when the passenger trains pulled into the station. [Since] Mandan was the main round house for trains, they had many trains to meet and people would toss them money from the trains. Their costumes were fantastic and very authentic.

Remmick Kids Getting Older: Edwin with guitar, Elmer, Violet and in front Raymond

When I was about sixteen, I took a freight train east to the grain farms. There I got a job on a thrashing crew, who ate well and were paid better than most. When my job was finished, I headed home with $60.oo in my pocket. That was a lot of money in those days.

Grain Harvests RUSSIA- Gran Harvest Edward Remick Remembers Odessa, 1905 and 1918 - Hauling Grain to Odessa USA - Grain Harvest August Reimann - Old Photographs Roy and American Falls, Idaho Washington State

Just before entering the 3C's, Jerome Mietchem, " [my Dad's best friend at that time], "and I took a freight train to go West. By the time we got to DIckenson, N. Dak. we were out of money and hungry, so, we decided to go home, again.

[That same year] ...I joined the 3 C's. Normally, we had to be 17 to enter but with my mother's help-we lied a bit and--got me in...I went to camp at Sidney, Montana.

1938 - Edwin Remmick standing outside his barracks at CCC Camp.

 For many many more photographs and stories see CCC Home Site.

CCC [USA Civilian Conservation Corps] Camp Co. No. 2761 near Sidney, MT, 1938 to 1940 - HOME SITE Memories and Photographs of Edwin Remmick's

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